This is an evolving list of curatorial studies sources and will be updated at the end of each workshop session.
on exhibitions
- Bennet, Tony (1988) “The Exhibitionary Complex” chapter from his book The Birth of the Musuem and also an essay published in the journal New Formations
- Normand, Vincent (2019) Introduction to Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions (Berlin: Sternberg Press; Lausanne: ECAL), with Tristan Garcia.
- Mende, Doreen (2015) Phd Thesis: “The Itinerant: On the delayed arrival of images of socialist internationalism that confound contemporary exhibiting processes“
- Wilson,M., Aikens,N., Mistry, J. & Caminha,K. (eds.) “On the Question of Exhibition” PARSE Journal Vol. 13, Parts 1,2 & 3.
- See also: the notes from the 2020 Bucharest Biennale workshop “handfuls thrown into air and scattered over earth” here: “What is exhibition?” and also “some notes from day one and also these notes on “Exhibition Histories“.
- An interesting example of a research project on experimental practice in exhibition is Cristian Nae (ed.) (2016) In(visible) Frames. Rhetoric and exhibition practices in Romania during the period 1965-1989, an output from the research project “Pluralization of the public sphere. Art exhibitions in Romania during 1968-1989”, at the New Europe College, Bucharest, which analyses artistic production considered as unofficial, alternative, subversive or experimental in Romania from the point of view of institutional frameworks.
platforms both explicitly curatorial and other forms
- https://monoskop.org/Student_Cultural_Center_Belgrade
- http://tranzit.org/en/about/
- https://lcca.lv/en/
- http://vcrc.org.ua/en/
- http://historicalreenactments.org
- https://www.bakonline.org/
- https://www.publics.fi/
- http://whw-akademija.whw.hr/about-whw/
- https://www.d-est.com The project title D’EST (“From the East”) is borrowed from the eponymous 1993 work of Chantal Akerman (1950–2015). Throughout the year 2018, the online platform introduced mostly female producers and artist collectives, publishing six curated screening chapters that map out feminist and collective forms of post-socialist historiography.
- http://sarai.net/about/
- https://platformlondon.org/p-multimedia/stoppingthebushfire
- https://chimurengachronic.co.za/
- http://www.vector.org.ro/
- http://parsejournal.com/
- https://www.internationaleonline.org/
- http://clui.org/
archival projects, platforms and reflections
- https://aaa.org.hk
- https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/4631/installation_images/42658
- https://monoskop.org/images/7/70/Galantai_Gyorgy_Klaniczay_Julia_eds_Artpool_The_Experimental_Art_Archive_of_East-Central_Europe_2013.pdf (In In 1997 Artpool organised the memorial exhibition Correspondence Art of Ray Johnson. It was presented in the Ernst Muzeum in Budapest)
- http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/incasethereisareason_the_theatre_of_mistakes/ and http://parsejournal.com/article/towards-a-purposeful-accident-elements-of-performance-art-via-the-ting-the-theatre-of-mistakes/
- “On Directing Air” an artistic archival practice looking at micro-interactions between Italian and Slovakian artists/curators and partly obscured histories of practice. Brief review in Flash Art here h- Publications produced within the context of the project:
- On Directing Air #1 / Peter Bartoš: Grazing Of The Lamb. An Attempt To Reconstruct An Afternoon 2016
- On Directing Air #2 / László Beke: On Directing (And Not Curating) Art.
- On Directing Air #1 2018: Ivan Jurica: Central (Eastern) Europe In The Context Of Colonial Mentality
- On Directing Air #2 2018: Selforganization and the Artsystem in Central Eastern Europe, Texts by Zsuzsa Laszlo, Dora Maurer, Jelena Vesic, Juliane Debeusscher
- Scotini Marco and Elisabetta Galasso (2017) Politics of Memory
- Merewether, Charles (2006) The Archive
- Dekker, Annet (ed.) (2017) Lost and Living in Archives
- Chateigné, Yann & Markus Miessen (eds.) (2016) The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict with contributions by Stuart Bailey, Bassam El Baroni, Thomas Bayrle, Jeremy Beaudry, Beatrice von Bismarck, Beatriz Colomina, Céline Condorelli, Mathieu Copeland, Joesph Grima, Nav Haq, Sandi Hilal, Nikolaus Hirsch, Thomas Jefferson, Christoph Keller, Alexander Kluge, Joachim Koester, Armin Linke, Julia Moritz, Rabih Mroué, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Seth Price, Walid Raad, Patricia Reed, David Reinfurt, Claire de Ribaupierre, Dexter Sinister, Eyal Weizman
- Hal Foster (2004) “An Archival Impulse” October Vol. 110 (Autumn), pp. 3-22 (https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Foster_Hal_2004_An_Archival_Impulse.pdf)
- Clementine Deliss Metabolic Museum‑University (MM‑U)
key shows often cited in debates
See also Afterall Exhibition Histories
- Primitivism https://www.moma.org/interactives/moma_through_time/1980/the-infamous-primitivism-exhibition/
- Magiciens de la terre https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/magiciens-de-la-terre/
- Cities on the Move https://waysofcurating.withgoogle.com/exhibition/cities-on-the-move
- Utopia Station https://www.fehe.org/index.php?id=265
- When Attitudes Become Form https://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/project/live-in-your-head-when-attitudes-become-form-works-at-kunsthalle-bern-bern-7880
- Documenta 5 curated by Harald Szeemann https://artmap.com/documenta/exhibition/documenta-5-1972
- documenta X curated by Catherine David
- Documenta 11
- The 2nd (“and last”) Johannesburg Biennale curated by Okwui Enwezor described as “the most discussed, loved, hated, thought-provoking, and game-changing exhibitions featuring contemporary art from African perspectives in the past decades” https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/2nd-johannesburg-biennale and https://contemporaryand.com/magazines/the-johannesburg-biennale/
- 13th Istanbul Biennial – Anne, ben barbar miyim? / Mom am I barbarian? curated by Fulya Erdemci and controversies about the show’s thematising of”public-ness” while seeming to operate in tension and conflict or disconnect with actual public mobilisations in Istanbul and across Turkey, https://www.dw.com/en/istanbul-biennial-solidarity-with-gezi-park-protesters/g-17100634 and https://www.ft.com/content/841411a2-204a-11e3-9a9a-00144feab7de and Marcus Verhagen (2013) “13th Istanbul Biennial” in THIRD TEXT, November. http://www.thirdtext.org/domains/thirdtext.com/local/media/images/medium/Verhagen_13th_Istanbul_Biennial.pdf
- Degenerate Art Exhibition, original catalogue. http://lcc.onlineculture.co.uk/ttp/ttp.html?id=1bdcb351-e431-45a2-8fa7-4fa343bdc27f&type=book (OA) — Degenerate Art Exhibition, video documentary, https://youtu.be/1QE4Ld1mkoM (OA)Farago, — Jason (2014) “Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937 review – What Hitler dismissed as ‘filth’” (url: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/mar/13/degenerate-art-attack-modern-art-nazi-germany-review-neue-galerie ) (OA)
white cube
- https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-white-cube-dominate-art (OA)
- http://www.on-curating.org/issue-22-43/the-global-white-cube.html#.Wwq7L8i-nVo Filipovic, Elena (2014) “The Global White Cube” in OnCurating, Issue 22, April. (OA)
- https://www.e-flux.com/journal/03/68545/positively-white-cube-revisited/ Sheikh, Simon (2009) “Positively White Cube Revisited” e-flux Journal #03, February (OA)
- http://www.societyofcontrol.com/whitecube/insidewc.htm O’Doherty, Brian (1976) “Inside the White Cube” (AO)
- https://www.moma.org/research-and-learning/archives/archives-highlights-01-1929 (OA)
- https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/03/11/small-steps-lead-to-bigger-changes-moma-s-shifting-wall-colors/ (OA)
- http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/white-cube-and-beyond (OA)
- http://nedkosolakov.net/content/a_life_black__white/index_eng.html# (OA)
biennales
- https://www.theartnewspaper.com/feature/is-the-biennial-model-busted (OA)
- http://www.on-curating.org/issue-39-reader/questionnaire.html#.XUba4y2B2_s Issue 39 Draft: Global Biennial Survey 2018 (OA)
- http://www.biennialfoundation.org/about/our-mission/ (OA)
- http://www.biennialfoundation.org/home/biennial-map/ (OA)
- Kompatsiaris, Panos (2017) The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art, Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. (OA*)
- Roberts, Bill (2018) “The politics of contemporary art biennials: spectacles of critique, theory and art”, Journal of Visual Art Practice, 02 January, Vol.17(1), pp.132-134. (OA*)
- O’Neill, P. et al. (eds.) (2016) The Curatorial Conundrum, MIT Press, USA.
- See also some short notes form the June 2020 workshop discussion ‘we’ don’t need another biennale ‘here’?
organization / institution / institutional critique
- http://esferapublica.org/reiventing.institutionalcritique.pdf Raunig, Gerald and Gene Ray (eds.) (2009) Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique. (OA)
- https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/inside-job-in-the-tradition-of-institutional-critique-artists-are-throwing-wrenches-into-the-art-worlds-works-7617/ (OA)
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/i/institutional-critique (OA)
- http://www.liberatetate.org.uk/about/ (OA)
- Sholette, Gregory (2011) ”DARK MATTER: Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere”. ArtForum. http://www.gregorysholette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/05_darkmattertwo1.pdf (AO)
some projects of interest
- http://newworldsummit.org/ Jonas Staal New World Summit Review the website
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QbzmOqh9xk Jonas Staal speaking at Creative Time conference
- http://phlassembled.net/ Philadelphia Assembled, 2014-2018 – Review the website
- https://www.familistere.com/uploads/media/5a772b41c14f8/extrait-livret-bancs-d-utopie-anglais-20160329.pdf Francis Cape, Bancs d’Utopie, 2015
- https://slavsandtatars.com/news
- https://www.forensic-architecture.org/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F413Jmy_ZPk Mary Kelly, Moderna Museet (example 11)
- https://www.marykellyartist.com/post-partum-document-1973-79 (example 11)
journals and publishing platforms contemporary art / culture
- https://www.afterall.org/publications/exhibition.histories/ Afterall Exhibition Histories
- http://www.internationaleonline.org/ L’Internationale Online research and publishing platform of Museum network (OA)
- https://www.e-flux.com/journal/ Key platform for debates & critical positions contemporary art & politics (OA)
- http://parsejournal.com PARSE Journal of Artistic Research – a research-based journal for the arts (OA)
- http://on-curating.org OnCurating (OA)
- http://field-journal.com/ FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism (OA)
- http://www.thirdtext.org/online journal postcolonial / decolonial perspectives on contemporary art. (LIBRARY OL)
- https://kunstkritikk.com/ Kunst Kritikk (OA)
- http://idea.ro/revista/en IDEA Arts a+ Society journal (OA)
- https://www.springerin.at/en/page/about/ springerin magazine, theory and critique of contemporary art and culture (POA)
- http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/about/ peer-reviewed, open-access on contemporary de/post-colonial critique. (OA)
- http://www.mahku.nl/activities/publications_index.html MaHKUscript (OA)
- http://eipcp.net European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (OA)
- https://transversal.at/ Transversal – cultural theory (OA)
- https://www.onlineopen.org/ OPEN Platform for Art, Culture and the Public Domain (OA)
- https://frieze.com/ FRIEZE Magazine (POA)
- http://www.nkajournal.org/ Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art (LIBRARY OL)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcin20#.VyczzVKLV7E Critical Interventions, Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture (LIBRARY OL)
- http://www.iterationagain.com Public Art Research Project Australia (OA)
- http://www.onedaysculpture.org.nz Public Art Research Project New Zealand (OA)
- http://www.tate.org.uk/art Scroll down this page for links to glossary entries for key terms in contemporary art (OA)
- https://newcriterion.com The New Criterion conservative monthly journal of cultural criticism, NYC (POA)
- http://www.greyroom.org/ Grey Room, journal on architecture, art, media, and politics (LIBRARY OL)
- https://www.mitpressjournals.org/october October : art theory criticism politics (LIBRARY OL)
- http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/ Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research (OA)
- https://contempaesthetics.org Contemporary Aesthetics is an international open-access journal (OA)
- https://www.eurozine.com/ Eurozine network of 90+ European cultural journals
- https://www.pavilionmagazine.org/ Pavilion Journal for Politics and Culture
- https://imma.ie/what-is-art/overview/ Series of introductory booklets on contemporary art terms: (OA)
some general sources on contemporary art system and related
- Reilly, Maura (2015) “Taking the Measure of Sexism: Facts, Figures, and Fixes,” in ArtNews, Special Issue: Women in the Art World, June. http://www.maurareilly.com/pdf/essays/Reilly_ArtNews.pdf (OA)
- Demos, T. J. (2009) “The Politics of Sustainability: Contemporary Art and Ecology”, in Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009, published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Barbican Art Gallery, ed. by Francesco Manacorda, 16–30. London: Barbican Art Gallery. (url: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/3417) (OA)
- https://vimeo.com/251618816 T.J. Demos video of lecture “Against the Anthropocene” (OA)
- Scott, Emily Eliza (undated) “Artists’ Platforms for New Ecologies” in Third Text: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology online supplement. (url: http://www.thirdtext.org/artists-platforms-for-new-ecologies-arc ) (OA)
- Mignolo, Walter (2011) “Geopolitics of Sensing and Knowing: On (De)Coloniality, Border Thinking, and Epistemic Disobedience” (AO) http://www.confero.ep.liu.se/issues/2013/v1/i1/130312b/confero13v1i1129.pdf
- Marchart, Oliver (2019) “Being Agitated–Agitated Being”, Chapter 1 of Conflictual Aesthetics: Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere, Berlin, Sternberg. pp. 9-22. (GDRIVE)
- Wilson, Mick (2018-2020) “Introducing the Term Political Imaginary” (unpublished research notes, will circulate shortly)
- TDI+Transnational Decolonial Institute (2011) ‘“Decolonial Aesthetics (I)” (A Decolonial Aesthetics Manifesto)’. (url: https://transnationaldecolonialinstitute.wordpress.com/decolonial-aesthetics/) (OA)
some books of interest
- Garcia, Tristan & Vincent Normand (eds.) (2019) Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions, Berlin: Sternberg Press; Lausanne: ECAL. This volume both gathers and expands on the results of the research project “Theater, Garden, Bestiary: A Materialist History of Exhibitions” See the introduction and other related texts here online: https://ecal.academia.edu/VincentNormand
- O’Neill, Paul (2012) The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), MIT Press.
Harald Szeemann – just because….
- https://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/exhibitions/szeemann/index.html
- https://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibition/harald-szeemann-grandfather-a-pioneer-like-us/
- https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/22/harald-szeemanns-revolutionary-curating
aesthetics (under construction)
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/43/jasper_ngai.php “Cute” as aesthetic category
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